Schoutenia

Schoutenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Dombeyoideae
Genus: Schoutenia
Korth.
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms

Actinophora Wall.
Chartacalyx Maing.ex Mast. [1]

Schoutenia is a flowering plant genus. Traditionally included in the family Tiliaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. Pieter Willem Korthals described it in 1847/8 and named it after the explorer Willem Schouten.[2]

Selected species

Footnotes

  1. Hinsley (2007)
  2. Umberto Quattrocchi, CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z, Taylor & Francis US, 2000, p. 2422

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